Taylor company building

How to use multi-storey factory buildings is the same challenge faced by old industrial cities. In the middle of the twentieth century, people flocked to the vast suburbs, and the first floor factory was surrounded by spacious parking lots. These initial layouts became more and more outdated for large industries. Taylor Village is one of the best renovation factories in Cleveland. At 1872, along the former Pennsylvania railway line on the high-grade avenue, Ohio city resident Washington Taylor organized the Cleveland Wire Factory. He built a simple two-story wire factory on an 8-acre land. The company takes the lead in producing professional steel wire products, and enjoys a high reputation in the world for high-quality woven steel wire mesh, screening machinery, elevator entrance, elevator car and other products. The company moved to the current address of W.S. Taylor Company Building 19 13. This new building is much bigger. In the next 40 years, it will continue to grow to 654.38+0,000 square feet and 654.38+0 acres, with 24 buildings connected by a series of bridges. This unique complex allows employees to move between buildings without going out. It also uses vertical space to maximize output in the smallest possible area.

Taylor died in 19 17 at the age of 82, but his company still operates as an independent company in the building. At that time, the company employed more than 500 employees, most of whom lived nearby.

Cleveland Electric Wire Factory moved to Mentor on 1962, but the building remained until the mid-1970s, when it was the seat of the elevator car department. However, after Taylor sold the department to Combustion Industries in Stanford, Connecticut in 1968, the factory complex was gradually abandoned. It used to employ as many as 1 100 workers. By the mid-1970s, it only provided 1 100 jobs. Anthony Asher purchased the property on two different plots in 1975 and 1978 respectively. Asher's goal is to transform these buildings and rent them to light industry to install 1 12 apartments. He also renamed the industrial park in downtown Cleveland. Taylor elevator product, the building with the same name, finally left the suburban valley view at 1984.

After handing over the property to his three sons in 1990, in 2005, Anthony Asher bought back the property, this time through Gray Si Tong Real Estate Company, and began to renovate the building of W.S. Taylor Company into Taylor Village. These bridges define this mixed-use structure, but they are still functional, allowing people to pass through the entire building complex comfortably and conveniently to reach parking lots, gyms, restaurants, housing units, parks, charter schools and even farmers' markets. Various businesses are in sharp contrast to its long history as a single-purpose complex.